Hey! Hey-ey!

LOL I have Train's song in my mind!
I just wanted to let y'all know about an Accuquilt GO! giveaway~ Sweet P~ Paulette was lucky enough to try one out and give one away. Hop over and enter her giveaway. I'm really hoping I can win one sometime, but if I can't~ maybe you will! Good luck!!

Karen at Sew Many Ways is giving one away too. My fingers are sooo crossed!! :-))

We are in the final moving stretch! This week everything will be packed and moved to our new home. I'll probably not have internet for a few days, so if I win the GO! be sure to email me ok? LOL I'll check email at the library. ;-)

Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!

Ta-Da!

Ok, I know this really isn't 'ta-da' worthy to most of you, but to me it is a big deal to get my August Schnibble done. :-) This is the last month for our 'Year of Schnibbles' and I've managed to do every one in the month it was chosen, so I didn't want to fall out now. But with painting, running back and forth between houses, college shopping, (taking DS to college this week) and the packers showing up at my door on Friday, I knew my days were numbered. So I've been sewing every spare minute I could find for the past 2 weeks to get 'er done... and whew! I did it! :-)) This is the large version of Plan C from Carrie's Schnibbles Times Two book. I used Park Avenue by Moda for it. I picked the layer cakes up last month when I was retreating in Portland. :-)



Now it is time to pack up my sewing machine and stuff and take it to it's new home. I don't trust the movers with the majority of my sewing stuff, so we are taking it out ourselves. This will be my new sewing space~ yupper, the painting is finished! :-))


Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!

What Do You Collect?

LOL besides fabric! :-)

I have been meaning to show y'all my thimble collection. I didn't always collect thimbles~ my friend Lindsay hosted a swap and well, the rest is history! :-) I swapped the WA thimble in her swap. I thought that a state thimble would be easy to find~ boy was I wrong! I ended up ordering them from Illinois!! :-o One of the swappers really got creative and made the angel from a metal thimble. I don't think the little plastic thimble was part of the swap, I think I had that one.


Then my friend from Australia sent me this set. (sorry it is over exposed) All the thimbles have flowers from Australia on them. At Christmas last year she sent me the other two in the cute little red purse. :-)


When DH was returning this spring from deployment, their plane had a layover in Ireland and he bought these for me. :-)) I'm half Irish ~not the lucky half, the blarney half LOL :-))


I'm really looking forward to figuring out a way to display these in my new quilt studio. Any ideas? If my Dad read my blog, I'd hint to him to make me a little cabinet, but he doesn't. Rats! LOL :-)) (blarney half, remember?) :-))


We finished painting the living room and dining room at the house and today we worked in the cottage. We are making progress!


Until next time~
Have a happy week!!

Warning! Quilt Content!

LOL I thought I should warn y'all that I actually did a little sewing! :-) I have been hurrying to the house to paint during the day, then hurrying home to work on my July Schnibble at night. Finally~ I got it together! I just hope there isn't any paint on it! LOL I used my stash of oriental fabrics because I just couldn't think past the name of July's pattern- 'Joy Luck'. Tomorrow is the Schnibbles parade, so be sure to go to Sherri or Sinta's blogs for the show! :-)



At the house today, the 'floor guy' got the hardwood flooring in the family room. I thought it looked so funny all taped up~ he didn't want to have to dust the kitchen. LOL As we were leaving, he was busy sanding the floors to get them ready for the stain. (I forgot my camera today, so took these shots with my cell phone, sorry for the blur :-/


I'm off to put my tootsies in the air and look at the magazine I got in the mail today~
Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!!

Happy Day!

Oh happy day! We finished painting the kitchen and family room today. Yay! :-)

This is looking into the kitchen. It really doesn't look that yellow in real life. The wall along the right side of the photo is the same color and probably truer to what it really looks like. It does have a light yellow tint to it. I was thinking, it would be really cool to stencil some ivy or something along the sides of the red in the kitchen, but not now. LOL Still way too much to do before moving day. Oh and the gray carpet? Comes out Tuesday. :-))





And we have some winners! (I know that is what you were looking for! LOL)

Hubby did the drawing for me~ the winners of the vintage sheet sets are Pieceful Afternoon and Sew Cindy! Congratulations! And the winner of the 30's FQ's is Needled Mom! Congratulations! :-)

If y'all could send me your snail mail addresses, I'll get your goodies in the mail tomorrow. :-)



That's all for now!
Hope you had a great weekend!
Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!

Odd's and End's

LOL How is that for a title? Today is Thimbleberries Day! Unfortunately~ I won't be sewing with y'all, I'll be painting. ;-) Please be sure to let me know if you are sewing, and I'll stop by tonight. :-)

This is a photo of the hardwood floor in the kitchen. It is also in the entry. We had them refinished and I love them! It is red oak. Now we are thinking maybe we should do the whole family room before we move! LOL :-)
And this is the kitchen~ it was hot so I rigged up an old drape in the sky light while we were priming in there. ;-) This is my 'before' photo. I can hardly wait to get the painting done for the after! :-))

These are in the cottage~ good work going on in there! :-)


If you haven't already signed up for my giveaway~ be sure to check it out below. I am just loving coming home at night and finding your comments! Thank you!! And speaking of giveaways... :-) My Mom is having one too~ drop in on her soon! Good luck! :-)

Until next time~
Happy stitchin'... or in my case.. painting! LOL

Whoohoo!

We finally, I mean finally got all the wall paper glue off of the walls and started putting the primer on today. I look like I have a badly done French manicure~ the primer is under all my fingernails because they poked through the gloves I was wearing! :-o LOL :-) That's ok~ soon we'll be painting, then hard telling what color my nails will be! ;-)


So to celebrate~ how about a giveaway? :-) I have 2 sets of 6 vintage sheet FQ's and 4- 30's FQ's. Tell me which you'd like to win and I'll toss your name in the appropriate hat. I'll draw on Sunday. You don't have to become a follower, but if you do and tell me in a separate comment, I'll toss you in again! And if you are already a follower and tell me (in a separate comment) I'll toss you in twice! :-)

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!